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authorRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2012-08-21 20:16:07 +0100
committerRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2012-08-21 20:53:09 +0100
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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ guestfs-release-notes - libguestfs Release Notes
=head1 RELEASE NOTES FOR LIBGUESTFS 1.20
-I<NOTES UPDATED TO COMMIT 47410e79995f9d8c5fb9739ca4609c78e13218ee>
+I<NOTES UPDATED TO COMMIT 56287d16ebde3d892ed4886724573015e39f79fa>
These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
stable/dev branch split (1.18.0). For detailed changelogs, please see
@@ -41,11 +41,23 @@ libguestfs handle (up to 255).
Libguestfs can now handle E<gt> 25 disks, in all APIs, tools and tests.
+Several libguestfs APIs were reimplemented so they no longer suffer
+from any protocol limits. The reimplemented APIs are:
+C<guestfs_cat>, C<guestfs_find>, C<guestfs_read_file>,
+C<guestfs_read_lines>, C<guestfs_write>, C<guestfs_write_append>,
+C<guestfs_lstatlist>, C<guestfs_lxattrlist>,
+C<guestfs_readlinklist>, C<guestfs_ls>.
+
=head3 virt tools
C<guestfish touch 'win:c:\new_file'> now works as expected.
-C<rsync> and C<ssh> commands are now availble in virt-rescue.
+C<guestfish> has a new I<--network> option, which enables the user
+network in libguestfs.
+
+C<rsync> and C<ssh> commands are now availble in virt-rescue. In
+addition, C<rsync> can be used through the API for doing incremental
+copies.
C<virt-sparsify> uses qcow2 v3 for increased efficiency.
@@ -69,6 +81,15 @@ remove ABRT data (Wanlong Gao)
remove puppet keys and log files (Wanlong Gao)
+=item *
+
+remove process accounting files (Wanlong Gao)
+
+=item *
+
+new I<--firstboot> parameter allowing firstboot scripts
+for customizing guests
+
=back
C<virt-make-fs> can now create virtual floppy disks (VFDs).
@@ -79,6 +100,17 @@ C<guestmount> has a I<--pid-file> option.
In Ruby, optional arguments hash is optional.
+In Python, optional arguments now don't use special "sentinel"
+values, so any integer can be passed as an optional argument.
+
+Erlang bindings now come with examples and tests.
+
+Erlang bindings now handle 64 bit integer parameters correctly.
+
+The automated 'bindtests' now test for 64 bit cleanliness in parameter
+passing. Several bugs in the bindings were found and fixed as a
+result.
+
=head3 ports
Libguestfs without the appliance can be compiled on Mac OS X
@@ -114,14 +146,22 @@ L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=788642>
canonical-device-name
device-index
filesystem-available
+ fill-dir
fstrim
+ ls0
max-disks
nr-devices
+ rsync
+ rsync-in
+ rsync-out
shutdown [backported to 1.16 and 1.18]
+ tar-in [added compress flag]
+ tar-out [added compress, numericowner, exclude flags]
umount [added force and lazy optional arguments]
utsname
- xfs-growfs
- xfs-info
+ xfs-admin (thanks Wanlong Gao)
+ xfs-growfs (thanks Wanlong Gao)
+ xfs-info (thanks Wanlong Gao)
=head2 Internals
@@ -129,6 +169,10 @@ qemu E<ge> 1.1.0 is required.
febootstrap E<ge> 3.19 is required.
+libvirt is optional, but if you want to use the new libvirt
+backend for launching the appliance then libvirt E<ge> 0.10.0 would
+be required.
+
Functions which previously had no optargs can now be converted to ones
with optargs, making extending the API much more flexible. Source and
binary backwards compatibility is preserved for users of the API.
@@ -154,6 +198,10 @@ C<ntfsresize> / C<ntfsresize_opts>
=item *
+C<tar_in> and C<tar_out>
+
+=item *
+
C<umount>
=back
@@ -191,6 +239,14 @@ C<run --test> flag for running tests with minimal output.
=over 4
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/847881>
+
+RFE: allow extra arguments (like --exclude) to tar-out
+
+=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/847880>
+
+tar-out should allow (or force) --numeric-owner
+
=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/845522>
guestfish "copy-out / localdir" command fails with "No such file or directory"